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Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture
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Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the history, politics, economics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology of world’s local culture. The journal brings together original and innovative articles which deploy interdisciplinary and comparative research methods add also welcomes progress reports on research projects, fieldwork notes, book reviews, and notes on conferences. Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture is published by Laboratorium Bantenologi, State Islamic University (UIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten in June and December each year. The journal accepts articles in English and Indonesia.
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Punk Muslim: Ekspresi ldentitas Keagamaan Subkultur Muslim Urban Rahmat Hidayatullah
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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This paper attempts to understand the expression of Punk Muslim's religious identities as an example of the interration process between religion and modernity, particularly Islam and popular culture in the context of contemporary Muslims' everyday life through the perspectives of cultural and religious studies. According to Lynn Schofield Clark, the study of interraction process between religion and popular culture involves a number of crucial questions: How is religion represented and understood in the landcape of popular culture? How are popular culture aspects adopted by religion as tools to strengthen people's identities? How do certain religious groups use popular culture as a source or a way to reflect and discuss the perspectives and practices of their religious life? How are religious traditions well-transmitted to the youth through stories, pictures, sounds and rituals? Keywords: Punk, Muslims, Religious Identities, Modernity, Popular, Culture
Breaking Patriarchal Gender Stereotype. Being A Female Rector of the Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia/ISBI Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Nurmila, Nina
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 4 No 1 (2017): January - June 2017
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Patriarchy is a system that put adult men in the central or the most important position, while women and children are put in relation to the interest of the patriarch (adult men). The over generalised belief (stereotype) of women in patriarchal system is that women are subordinate to men and be housewife who serves her husband, does houseworks and looks after her children. This paper will elaborate the case study of a couple who break this patriarchal gender stereotype, in which the husband flexibly changes his role to adapt and support his wife’s career as the Rector of ISBI. This case study shows that not all men are patriarchal and that education can be a powerful tool to break patriarchal gender relation both in private and public spheres. Keywords : Gender stereotype, female leadership, Indonesian Islam, patriarchy 
Reports on Ongoing and Past Research Project Laboratorium Bantenologi’s Biographies of Ulama and Religious Leaders in Banten 1810-2000 Mufti Ali; Ade Jaya Suryani
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 1 (2015): January - June 2015
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Reports on Ongoing and Past Research Project Laboratorium Bantenologi’s Biographies of Ulama and Religious Leaders in Banten 1810-2000
President Yudhoyono’s Response to Violence against Ahmadiyah and Shia: A’an Suryana
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 3 No 1 (2016): January - June 2016
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Abstract The era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saw rising intolerance and even violence against minority congregations, Ahmadiyah and Shia; in the forms of attacks to places of worships; attacks to houses belonging to minorities, forced eviction targeting minorities and banning against religious activities.This article looks at what factors that contributed to President Yudhoyono’s response to the rising violence against the minority congregations during his two terms at the office (between 2004 and 2014). Scholars criticized the president for his seemingly in action in addressing the violence. Some scholars argued it was the agency of President Yudhoyono that contributed to his indifference toward the violence. Other scholars pointed out at more structural factors that they argued to have caused President Yudhoyono for being indecisive, ignorant or slow in making actions toward the rising intolerance, such as his childhood experience and family background and the revival of corporatist metaphor in the post-New Order era that impeded the president for making bold measures to fight for the minority rights. Through the case study of President Yudhoyono’s response to the violence, the article aims to contribute to Indonesian perspective on the classic debate about whether structure shapes the agency, or agency shapes the structure. In light of the arguments that the scholars proposed in the preceding paragraph, I would argue that we need to think of beyond binary opposition between agency and structure. Scholars, especially the essentialists, had the habit to determinatively point out at either agents or structures, which were held responsible for the occurrence of events, but, omitting either factor would ignore some aspects that had the potentials to enrich our understandings about what motivates the agents in making social actions. Keywords: Violence, Ahmadiyah, Shia, Minority Rights.
Notes on Conference Helmy F.B Ulumi
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Tracing Banten in South Africa
Ritual Daur Hidup di Kampung Naga, Desa Neglasari, Kec. Salawu Kab. Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat Abdurrahman Misno Bambang Prawiro
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Jawa Barat adalah salah satu dari provinsi di Indonesia yang memiliki kekayaan budaya yang sangat beragam. Kekayaan budaya di Tatar Sunda (Jawa Barat) terpusat pada beberapa wilayah yang menjadi konsentrasi komunitas adat, dari mulai wilayah timur Ciamis, hingga ke Sukabumi. Masing-masing wilayah memiliki kekhasan budaya yang berbeda antara yang satu dengan yang lainnya. Salah satu dari kebudayaan yang hingga ini masih ada dan dipertahankan adalah Kampung Naga, ia adalah sebuah kampung adat yang memegang teguh tradisi leluhur (karuhun) yang mereka warisi dari generasi ke generasi. Salah satu yang menarik dari komunitas Kampung Naga adalah ritual daur hidup (life cyrcle) yang mereka laksanakan tanpa dipengaruhi oleh budaya luar. Artikel ini memaparkan ritual daur hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah dengan metode etnografi, dimana penulis terlibat langsung dalam proses ritual yang mereka laksanakan. Observasi, wawancara mendalam dan partisipasi dalam setiap kegiatan adalah tekhnik yang digunakan untuk mendapatkan data yang dapat dipertanggunghjawabkan. Penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa ritual daru hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga meliputi ritual, ibu mengandung, kelahiran anak, khitanan, gusaran, perkawinan, dan selamatan bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia. Ritual yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas ini berasal dari kepercayaan lama Sunda dengan dikombinasikan dengan budaya Islam yang masuk belakangan. Keywords: Ritual Daur Hidup, Kampung Naga, Komunitas Adat, Tatar Sunda
Wetu Telu in Bayan Lombok: Zuhdi, Muhammad Harfin
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 3 No 2 (2016): July - December 2016
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Islam reached Lombok Island in the sixteenth century, approximately in 1545, which was brought by SunanGiri, the son of SunanPrapen, one of the prominent Islamic preachers known as Wali Songo, through an expedition from Java. Prior to its arrival in the Island, according to some historians, the indigenous Sasak (the indigenous people of Lombok) embraced a traditional belief known as Boda. Historically, since its establishment, Islam has perpetually been expanding despite facing some distinct and contradictory values of local tradition and culture, which leads to a kind of dialectical process and turns in what is known as local Islam such as Islam WetuTelu in Bayan, West Lombok. This article is aimed at revealing the historical root of religious identity of Sasak community. The historical sketch of its religious identity produces a combination of traditional, cultural and religious values of the comers with those of the indigenous people in the past, WetuTelu religion. Present Muslims in Lombok assume that the existence of traditional Islam is due to an incomplete process of Islamization in the Island. Keywords: Boda, Agama, Local culture, WetuTelu, Waktu Lima
Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar; Scholar, Sufi, National Hero: Towards Constructing Local Identity and History at the Cape Armien Cassiem
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 4 No 1 (2017): January - June 2017
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This paper focuses on the Origins and Malaya presence of Islam in both ritual practices and daily life of modern day Islam as practiced by Muslims in Cape Town, South Africa. It also tries to capture the presence of Shaykh Yusuf s short time spent at the Cape, 1694 - 1699, and how this period of his life gives expression to local history, storytelling, tradition and meaning to Islam in contemporary Cape Town. Keywords: Shaykh Yusuf, Macassar, South Africa, Ritual Practices, Local Identity
Reception of Islamic Law On Indigenous Communities: Prawiro, Abdurrahman Misno Bambang
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 1 (2015): January - June 2015
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The first community to accept Islam was the tenant at the coastal areas of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Maluku, Nusa Tenggara and Papua. After that Islam disseminated to rural areas throughout the country as the consequence of their reception of Islamic law. However, the fact was not all Islamic law accepted and implemented, because they already have customs practiced continuously by hereditary generations long before the arrival of Islam. Some custom in Indonesia, which still survive was practiced by indigenous community such as Baduy and Kampung Naga. This research examines the reception of Islamic law by those indigenous communities. The focus of this study is the elements of Islamic law, the reception pattern of Islamic law, and the factors that influence the reception. The purpose and usefulness of this study was to answer the research questions and describe the two customary of communities as well as bad correlation with the Islamic legal system. The method used is empirical legal study. The data used in this study were the primary data source derived from observation, deep interviews and library research. Research shows that the reception of Islamic law by the community of Baduy in the implementation of Islamic law marriage that is reading the creed of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH records by KUA, especially on the community of Outer Baduy. Reception  in the field of inheritance was limited to the mention of the terms in Islamic inheritance, while the division still follow their customs that divide the estate equally both boys and girls. While the community of Kampung Naga reception occurs in the majority of law and worship in particular muamalah especially in wedding. Islamic law reception process occurs due to internal factors (custom character and creed) and external (social interaction and the power of the state).The researcher formulated the theory of Islamic law reception by the indigenous communities is Reception through Selection-modification, reception of Islamic law by indigenous communities with the selection and  modification. If Islamic law  is in accordance with the accepted custom, when it conflicts then modified to align with traditional values.Keywords: Reception of Law, Legal Anthropology, Indigenous Community, Adat, Islamic Law, Baduy, Kampung Naga and Theory Reception through Selection-modification.   
Local Marriage System of Boti Community Depicted through its Speech Ritual Iswanto Iswanto
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 3 No 2 (2016): July - December 2016
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Marriage system in the indigenous trust describes the relationship of supernatural effect on family kinshipinthe community. Such the relevance is the primary identifier and the identity of the diversity of the Indonesian nation. It is inevitable that a cultureas a pillar of diversity is a buffer for entering the era of multicultural and globalization. Values of Humanist is the power of social relation among individuals in the community groups. This paper describes the characteristic of marriage in society of Boti in East Nusa Tenggara who hold the original trust Halaika.The results shows behaviors that indicate homage to supernatural of Uis Pah (Lord of the Earth), Uis Oe (Lordof Water) and Uis Neno (Lord of Heaven) in a series of marriages that is rich of value and meaning. Keywords: Halaika, Boti, Local Marriage